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Before you start going down an agile implementation path it is worth the effort to capture and document why you are doing this change, what problems you expect to see, and how you will know you are successful. These need to expressed in terms of business drivers, not in terms of agile, so everyone is aligned on the objective.
The “why” part is particularly important. Organization change is hard, and your organization will often push back (what I call “organization anti-bodies”). Having a solid understanding of why we are doing this will help us maintain the resolve, the urgency, to get through the complex issues.
What I have found effective in developing the “why” and also gaining a degree of buy-in is run a assessment workshop.
To understand business objective of transformation to agile, to determine basic approach, potential obstacles, and metrics for success.
Expect leadership to be involved in a day or two days (depending on how many interviews) set of activities. “Leadership” includes management as well as technical leadership.
These workshops work best when done face-to-face and without having proxies do the work in the place of leadership.
During interview process we may (depending on whether there is value) use assessment tools from Eliassen to document some of the results.
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